Senko Rašić
@senko.net
I help startups with AI, tech, product, and open source strategy.
Ex Pythagora (YC W24), MusicBox (acq.), AWW (acq.), Naslovnica (acq.), WebCampZg.
Personal: https://senko.net
Work: https://senkorasic.com
Ex Pythagora (YC W24), MusicBox (acq.), AWW (acq.), Naslovnica (acq.), WebCampZg.
Personal: https://senko.net
Work: https://senkorasic.com
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Weekend thoughts on Gas Town, Beads, slop AI browsers, and AI-generated PRs flooding overwhelmed maintainers. I don't think we're ready for our new powers we're wielding. lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/18/ag...
Agent Psychosis: Are We Going Insane?
What’s going on with the AI builder community right now?
lucumr.pocoo.org
January 18, 2026 at 10:38 AM
Weekend thoughts on Gas Town, Beads, slop AI browsers, and AI-generated PRs flooding overwhelmed maintainers. I don't think we're ready for our new powers we're wielding. lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/18/ag...
Word of the day: clauding → coding using an AI agent.
"Vibe coding" has negative connotations and "AI-assisted software software development" is unwieldy.
What if you use Codex? Well, if you can google using Bing, you can claude using Codex.
"Vibe coding" has negative connotations and "AI-assisted software software development" is unwieldy.
What if you use Codex? Well, if you can google using Bing, you can claude using Codex.
January 17, 2026 at 7:02 PM
Word of the day: clauding → coding using an AI agent.
"Vibe coding" has negative connotations and "AI-assisted software software development" is unwieldy.
What if you use Codex? Well, if you can google using Bing, you can claude using Codex.
"Vibe coding" has negative connotations and "AI-assisted software software development" is unwieldy.
What if you use Codex? Well, if you can google using Bing, you can claude using Codex.
This is slightly depressing:
Claude Code just churned 4K lines of code (addition to existing project), I just had to add two lines of config.
Of course it didn't work. Spent half an hour debugging.
I incorrectly copy-pasted those two lines.
Claude Code just churned 4K lines of code (addition to existing project), I just had to add two lines of config.
Of course it didn't work. Spent half an hour debugging.
I incorrectly copy-pasted those two lines.
January 15, 2026 at 3:05 PM
This is slightly depressing:
Claude Code just churned 4K lines of code (addition to existing project), I just had to add two lines of config.
Of course it didn't work. Spent half an hour debugging.
I incorrectly copy-pasted those two lines.
Claude Code just churned 4K lines of code (addition to existing project), I just had to add two lines of config.
Of course it didn't work. Spent half an hour debugging.
I incorrectly copy-pasted those two lines.
AI labs scraping your sites steal your content and increase your hosting costs to boot. Agree or disagree?
Here's my humble suggestion on how to solve the AI scraping problem: senkorasic.com/articles/ai-...
Here's my humble suggestion on how to solve the AI scraping problem: senkorasic.com/articles/ai-...
Solving the AI scraping problem - Senko Rašić
Tragedy of the commons in the age of AI scrapers and how good intentions entrench incumbents.
senkorasic.com
January 15, 2026 at 1:38 PM
AI labs scraping your sites steal your content and increase your hosting costs to boot. Agree or disagree?
Here's my humble suggestion on how to solve the AI scraping problem: senkorasic.com/articles/ai-...
Here's my humble suggestion on how to solve the AI scraping problem: senkorasic.com/articles/ai-...
Reposted by Senko Rašić
January 11, 2026 at 10:50 PM
Reposted by Senko Rašić
January 11, 2026 at 10:19 AM
StackOverflow was already in free-fall. LLMs just removed the (air) friction.
StackOverflow chart of death interpretation: LLMs killed it so fast because it was already losing users because of the social issues generating inside the site. Otherwise, SO could be the place where certain quality conversations continued to happen, and also a great source of LLM training.
January 4, 2026 at 3:03 PM
StackOverflow was already in free-fall. LLMs just removed the (air) friction.
Reposted by Senko Rašić
leroy jenkins maneuver
December 27, 2025 at 9:31 PM
leroy jenkins maneuver
How and why I'm learning Zig: blog.senko.net/learning-zig
Learning Zig
I've decided to learn Zig over the Christmas holidays. Zig is a low-level systems language with explicit memory management and error handling, alo...
blog.senko.net
December 27, 2025 at 8:39 PM
How and why I'm learning Zig: blog.senko.net/learning-zig
Reposted by Senko Rašić
Straight from the Mire of the Goat, the sharpest cut of this talk I wrote 🎉
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOrK...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOrK...
Tell me a story - Saša Jurić
YouTube video by Goatmire International
www.youtube.com
December 22, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Straight from the Mire of the Goat, the sharpest cut of this talk I wrote 🎉
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOrK...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOrK...
Why you should self-host: blog.senko.net/developer-co...
Developer convenience, infrastructure cost, and losing the open web
Lately I’ve been thinking about the cloud platforms, SaaS, AI, scraping, costs, and the gradual closing of the web. At first glance thes...
blog.senko.net
December 22, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Why you should self-host: blog.senko.net/developer-co...
Reposted by Senko Rašić
I see a lot of complaints about untested AI slop in pull requests. Submitting those is a dereliction of duty as a software engineer: Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/18/...
Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work
In all of the debates about the value of AI-assistance in software development there’s one depressing anecdote that I keep on seeing: the junior engineer, empowered by some class of …
simonwillison.net
December 18, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I see a lot of complaints about untested AI slop in pull requests. Submitting those is a dereliction of duty as a software engineer: Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/18/...
A 2025 vibe-coding wrap-up featuring 9 frontier models implementing Minesweeper, a silly test I used to quickly evaluate their coding: github.com/senko/vibesw...
Most had no problems, so I'm retiring it as a test. Next year I'm going to be using something a bit more challenging...
Most had no problems, so I'm retiring it as a test. Next year I'm going to be using something a bit more challenging...
December 11, 2025 at 2:44 PM
A 2025 vibe-coding wrap-up featuring 9 frontier models implementing Minesweeper, a silly test I used to quickly evaluate their coding: github.com/senko/vibesw...
Most had no problems, so I'm retiring it as a test. Next year I'm going to be using something a bit more challenging...
Most had no problems, so I'm retiring it as a test. Next year I'm going to be using something a bit more challenging...
We might be in an "AI bubble" thinkpiece bubble...
˚The GenAI bubble is going to pop. Everyone knows that. To me, the urgent and interesting questions are how widespread the damage will be and what the hangover will feel like.”
www.tbray.org/ongoing/When...
www.tbray.org/ongoing/When...
After the Bubble
www.tbray.org
December 10, 2025 at 9:00 PM
We might be in an "AI bubble" thinkpiece bubble...
It's been a while since I had any trouble connecting my Linux laptop to an external display for meetings or presentations.
No trouble whatsoever with printing & scanning. Even Bluetooth headphones work flawlessly.
The Year of Linux on Desktop has quietly but truly arrived!
No trouble whatsoever with printing & scanning. Even Bluetooth headphones work flawlessly.
The Year of Linux on Desktop has quietly but truly arrived!
November 30, 2025 at 9:21 AM
It's been a while since I had any trouble connecting my Linux laptop to an external display for meetings or presentations.
No trouble whatsoever with printing & scanning. Even Bluetooth headphones work flawlessly.
The Year of Linux on Desktop has quietly but truly arrived!
No trouble whatsoever with printing & scanning. Even Bluetooth headphones work flawlessly.
The Year of Linux on Desktop has quietly but truly arrived!
From a squirrel:
"We interview devs by giving them a task to climb a tree. What is surprising: 14/15 rabbits failed this screening."
"We interview devs by giving them a task to climb a tree. What is surprising: 14/15 rabbits failed this screening."
From a CTO at a startup:
"We interview devs by giving them a task to build an app on the spot, from scratch (2x BE endpoints, some frontend.) They can use AI, ofc - and we dig into why they did this or that.
What is surprising: 14/15 devs from Meta failed this screening."
"We interview devs by giving them a task to build an app on the spot, from scratch (2x BE endpoints, some frontend.) They can use AI, ofc - and we dig into why they did this or that.
What is surprising: 14/15 devs from Meta failed this screening."
November 15, 2025 at 12:06 PM
From a squirrel:
"We interview devs by giving them a task to climb a tree. What is surprising: 14/15 rabbits failed this screening."
"We interview devs by giving them a task to climb a tree. What is surprising: 14/15 rabbits failed this screening."
Reposted by Senko Rašić
Zet CLI aplikacija. Mislim da samo mene veseli, ali neka. :)
ZET TUI demo
Recorded by ihabunek
asciinema.org
November 11, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Zet CLI aplikacija. Mislim da samo mene veseli, ali neka. :)
Reposted by Senko Rašić
OpenStreetMap Crash Course
Održat će se u Srijedu 05.11. u 19h na:
www.twitch.tv/turing_compl...
Sadržaj:
- uvod u OSM, kratka prezentacija s primjerima
- primjer rješavanja konkretnih zadataka
Trajanje cca 1h. Svi su dobrodošli naučiti malo o mapiranju.
bezdomni.net/osm-crash-co...
Održat će se u Srijedu 05.11. u 19h na:
www.twitch.tv/turing_compl...
Sadržaj:
- uvod u OSM, kratka prezentacija s primjerima
- primjer rješavanja konkretnih zadataka
Trajanje cca 1h. Svi su dobrodošli naučiti malo o mapiranju.
bezdomni.net/osm-crash-co...
OpenStreetMap Crash Course 2025
bezdomni.net
November 1, 2025 at 8:21 AM
OpenStreetMap Crash Course
Održat će se u Srijedu 05.11. u 19h na:
www.twitch.tv/turing_compl...
Sadržaj:
- uvod u OSM, kratka prezentacija s primjerima
- primjer rješavanja konkretnih zadataka
Trajanje cca 1h. Svi su dobrodošli naučiti malo o mapiranju.
bezdomni.net/osm-crash-co...
Održat će se u Srijedu 05.11. u 19h na:
www.twitch.tv/turing_compl...
Sadržaj:
- uvod u OSM, kratka prezentacija s primjerima
- primjer rješavanja konkretnih zadataka
Trajanje cca 1h. Svi su dobrodošli naučiti malo o mapiranju.
bezdomni.net/osm-crash-co...
Reposted by Senko Rašić
Evo ako je itko zainteresiran malo poslušati o otvorenim kartama, pripremit ću kratko predavanje i demo cca 1h, idući tjedan jednu večer. Napravio sam poll pa se upišite kad možete. Svi dobrodošli, ne morate nužno išta raditi kasnije. :)
strawpoll.com/3RnYXaxBmye
strawpoll.com/3RnYXaxBmye
October 28, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Evo ako je itko zainteresiran malo poslušati o otvorenim kartama, pripremit ću kratko predavanje i demo cca 1h, idući tjedan jednu večer. Napravio sam poll pa se upišite kad možete. Svi dobrodošli, ne morate nužno išta raditi kasnije. :)
strawpoll.com/3RnYXaxBmye
strawpoll.com/3RnYXaxBmye
"It's hard to get someone to fix a bug when their bottom line benefits from the bug not being fixed.", to paraphrase a popular quip.
Delta's version of "we get a lot of 500s, don't really care about fixing these ourselves; let's put the burden on the users"
October 25, 2025 at 7:20 PM
"It's hard to get someone to fix a bug when their bottom line benefits from the bug not being fixed.", to paraphrase a popular quip.
Reposted by Senko Rašić
![Comic. Two-column table. Column A lists planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune. Column B has checkmark boxes for whether the planets have rings: the outer planets’ boxes are checked, and Earth has a red check. [Earth with a ring with an array pf points around it. An arrow labeled “Geostationary Satellite Bel”t points to the ring.] [caption] Astronomy fact: A century ago, Earth didn’t have rings, but we have one now! It’s where all the satellite dishes are pointed.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreifauh76r3os5nnzjvkcz5sl2pgx5iz4sgkxebqjw3aogjn6e677aa@jpeg)
October 20, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Succintly put: "AI is writing 90% of the code [...] At the same time, AI doesn't own the code, [I] carry the responsibility for how it runs in production."
As an aside, happy to see I'm not the only maniac using AI to write raw SQL where I used to use ORM: github.com/senko/cijene...
As an aside, happy to see I'm not the only maniac using AI to write raw SQL where I used to use ORM: github.com/senko/cijene...
“Is 90% of code going to be written by AI? I don’t know. What I do know is, that for me, on this project, the answer is already yes.” lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/9/29/90...
90%
AI is writing 90% of the code I was in charge of
lucumr.pocoo.org
September 29, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Succintly put: "AI is writing 90% of the code [...] At the same time, AI doesn't own the code, [I] carry the responsibility for how it runs in production."
As an aside, happy to see I'm not the only maniac using AI to write raw SQL where I used to use ORM: github.com/senko/cijene...
As an aside, happy to see I'm not the only maniac using AI to write raw SQL where I used to use ORM: github.com/senko/cijene...
Reposted by Senko Rašić
The AlchemyConf version of my "Tell me a Story" talk is finally out 🎉
content.subvisual.com/talk-roundta...
content.subvisual.com/talk-roundta...
Saša Jurić || Tell Me a Story - Content Hub Blog
content.subvisual.com
September 29, 2025 at 8:53 AM
The AlchemyConf version of my "Tell me a Story" talk is finally out 🎉
content.subvisual.com/talk-roundta...
content.subvisual.com/talk-roundta...
Neka pati koga smeta, svaka bi ih majka za ZETa!
(za kontekst, natječe se 25 država)
(za kontekst, natječe se 25 država)
It's over! Nice to see a world championship where the USA and China didn't dominate the rankings
September 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Neka pati koga smeta, svaka bi ih majka za ZETa!
(za kontekst, natječe se 25 država)
(za kontekst, natječe se 25 država)
Next, people are going to call buying used books "stealing" because the authors get no money at all from the secondary sales.
I better sell a few of mine that I don't like enough to keep forever, before it gets outlawed as "piracy".
I better sell a few of mine that I don't like enough to keep forever, before it gets outlawed as "piracy".
The key detail people may miss: it looks like an AI company in the USA can train on an author's book by purchasing a used copy, cutting it up and scanning the pages - in which case the author gets no money at all!
September 6, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Next, people are going to call buying used books "stealing" because the authors get no money at all from the secondary sales.
I better sell a few of mine that I don't like enough to keep forever, before it gets outlawed as "piracy".
I better sell a few of mine that I don't like enough to keep forever, before it gets outlawed as "piracy".